No word on how much protection it offers, but a new design of low-cost, recyclable, bicycle helmet manufactured from waste paper pulp is an imaginative use for the discarded newspapers that litter the London transport network. Under the proposal, the many tons of newspapers, in particular the freebies such as the Standard and Metro, would be collected and blended with…
A change to the London congestion charge means that previously-exempt sub-100g/km cars such as the Fiat 500 TwinAir, Smart and Toyota Prius will no longer escape the daily £10 fee. Only fully-electric cars and plug-in electric hybrid models will scrape beneath the new exemption threshold of 75g/km. Cars that will continue to escape the congestion charge include the Nissan Leaf,…
A British inventor has built the world’s fastest and loudest shopping bicycle. Shopper bikes are the ideal vehicle for short-distance errands; robust little work vehicles long loved by those for whom the bicycle is about function rather than form.They are bikes that cannot be described as fast, until now. V1 doodlebug-powered bicycle Colin Furze is self-confessed ‘garage inventor’ who salvaged…
